Are you running postgresql?  postgres has several different auth 
mechanisms, most of which requiring user/pass.  Look in postgres.conf 
and pg_hba.conf.

Alan Jackson wrote:
> I got several of these in my logfile yesterday - is this innocent
> or is it something I should pursue?
> 
> Jun 28 11:18:22 earthman login[13633]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM 
>178-64-189-66.wo.cpe.charter-ne.com FOR postgres, Authentication service cannot 
>retrieve authentication info.
> Jun 28 11:18:27 earthman login[13633]: FAILED LOGIN 2 FROM 
>178-64-189-66.wo.cpe.charter-ne.com FOR postgres, Authentication service cannot 
>retrieve authentication info.
> Jun 28 11:23:07 earthman login[13673]: FAILED LOGIN SESSION FROM 
>178-64-189-66.wo.cpe.charter-ne.com FOR (null), Error in service module
> 


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